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Alexandra (Sascha) von Meier is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and directs the Electric Grid Research program at the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE). Her work is driven by the vision of a nimble, adaptable and resilient electric power infrastructure that optimally recruits resources such as solar photovoltaics, energy storage and electric demand response to support the transition to a carbon-neutral electric grid. Her current projects focus on the use of high-precision micro-synchrophasor measurements for situational awareness, diagnostics and control applications in power distribution systems.

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Making electric grids more intelligent, resilient and carbon-neutral hinges on innovation at the distribution level, the nexus between customers and the larger scale transmission system. A key challenge in this area has been the need for high-quality data, to give visibility into the actual operating state of distribution networks. Five years ago, a Berkeley-led team embarked on an ambitious ARPA-E funded project to develop a new type of sensor, the micro-PMU, and a new database to facilitate the use of these rich, synchronized time-series measurements in grid operations and analysis. This talk will summarize outcomes of this project and some of the ongoing research, at Berkeley and around the world, that builds on the new technology.

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